Tuesday, 28 June 2016

FMP: Test 4



In this test, i wanted to create a short story using clips and images. In this case the president of america being killed and Germany celebrating. Simple edit funny result.

FMP: Test 3

With the result of test 2 being humour with 911 footage. i wanted to make something slightly creepy. I changed the the frame rate down to around 5 frames per second. I also made it black and white, then gave it a over exposure look. As i wanted to make it look dated.

FMP: Test 2


With this test, I took 911 footage and cut it with the Jeremy Kyle show's theme. I edited the footage to give it a cheesy show looks. The result of this had people crowding me to watch, yes i want to achieve this effect but maybe with less 911.

Centipede test for cosplay -Alternative miss world


When it came to making my centipede I had thought of making it so I could also use in my cosplay for Kaneki from Tokyo ghoul. With a event happening just after I had a huge event, I had to decide on what cosplay to do. With the Centipede all done, I decided it was time. I have gathered photos of me in costume before the event and during to show how it turned out.
The Centipede goes through the holes in costume located at the shoulders and wrapped around the armpit to secure it. 

The result of going to events had a lot of good feedback I have found lots of photos and I found out that night that on Instagram there was people posting photos of me with #find James, just shows I left a mark. Here below our some of the photos I found.
Because of all the feedback and people I met I have formed a group so that we could get in touch and also help thoses who want help making such things as a centipede of their own.

FMP: test 1


I am going to be uploading all my tests and ideas onto here. As a lot of my development of my ideas were done as i went on.I would spend each day by finding a new way to break the footage. here is my first test piece. This was my first attempt to turn something from innocent to creepy. This piece was later used for a second in my FMP.

Being Human: Idea Development

As I am need to go from four to three characters to follow the freud Trio. I had already decided that Simon was going to be the character I dropped but Simon's arm concept is fear. One of my favourite concepts, but looking at the other emotions fear is odd one out. As ID and the Super Ego are opposites of each other. This is why I decided that Kevin(Joy) should be the ID and Steven(Sadness) should be the Super Ego. This is because of Joy being the opposite of sadness. When it came to deciding whom was going to be the Ego, my chooses were Fear and Anger. Opposites of each other, but as the Ego is meant to resolve the conflicts between two the ID and Super Ego. I have chosen Rob (Anger), as when your angry you can still function and if you think of fear, someone that is scared/ fearful it can make you unable to function. Fight or flight, Anger would fight and Fear would run away. As The Ego is the leader I needed to choose a emotion that could take on this role.

But the Fear's arm concept might still be used, for example a Tv report showing the first case of people having mutations. The person being chased down and loads of cameras on the person. This experience would make anyone scared, so for that person to have the Fear arm could work.

I am thinking to have the story not just told straight to the audience but for the audience to make out/ interpret the story for them selfs. I am wanting the characters having the mutations to be a secret to the audience at first with the maybe the Tv report being the first case the audience sees.

The mutation only effect those with a domermit Emotion. The reason for the mutations is due to a nuclear power plant having a meltdown and leaking into the water source. The way I'm going to tell the audience about how the mutation is spread is by having a Tv report saying " Scientists are still recommending the pubic to drink bottle water and to refrain from consuming water from the taps". The reason i want the report to include still is so that you can tell its been awhile.

I am thinking the film should be around 5 mins and be open ended. So that the film is like a Tv pilot, enough story to get you hocked but not too much so that it leaves you wanting more.

The film will be set in one room and will end when they decide to leave. But each character will have a different look due to the surrounding, lighting, effects and placement.  For example Kevin (joy) being sat by the window keeping the scene bright like his personality and having Steven being on the other side of the room were its darker. With the placement like this, I would think having Rob in the middle between them would be best. Preventing conflicts between Steven and Kevin, also to keep this Trio shown in a visual way.

Star Wars - research

In 1977 George Lucas released Star wars a new hope, the first in his space sage.  When George pitched his space sage,  FOX  and most people wondered how he would pull it off, considering nothing to this scale had been done at this point.

With all the effects George wanted he was having problems with finding a special effects company to help work on star wars. In the end George Lucas formed his own special effects company called "Industrial Light and Magic" This company was formed in 1975. ILM has since gone on to working on over 300 films, but it all started with Star wars. This had the most special effect for its time and had a lot of practical effects. In modern times would be a lot easier but this is where it all started. The sets would be built for everything scaled down to create these huge scenes.  For space battles the ships would of been made scaled down and filmed against a green screen or black background depending on its use. Original the imperial star destroyer in the opening scene was going to be 40 foot long but due to budgeting issue was scaled to around 4 foot. Stop motion was also used for stuff things as the AT AT walkers from the empire strikes back. For that scene they would have created a scaled down landscape and by hand made and moved the models. Not to mention the shots with cast members in cock pits and some scene would of been to scale. but these shots would of most likely been blended together. This trick is still used to this day but these days its CGI. But trick is to film the foreground and the background separately then overlay them.